Due to the recent worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, there has been an enormous change in our lifestyle and it has a severe impact in different fields like finance, education, business, travel, tourism, economy, etc., in all the affected countries. In this scenario, people must be careful and cautious about the symptoms and should act accordingly. Accurate predictions of different factors, like the end date of the pandemic, duration of lockdown and spreading trend can guide us through the pandemic and precautions can be taken accordingly. Multiple attempts have been made to model the virus transmission, but none of them has investigated it at a global level. The novelty of the proposed work lies here. In this paper, first, authors have analysed spreading of the said disease using data collected from various platforms and then, have presented a predictive mathematical model for fifteen countries from first, second and third world for probable future projections of this pandemic. The prediction can be used by planning commission, healthcare organizations and the government agencies as well for creating suitable arrangements against this pandemic.

With the rapid advancement of technology and decline in human ability, technology has become a part of every aspect of our lives. Agriculture and irrigation are two domains in which man's potential may be exploited to its fullest. To commercialise in the industry, a variety of sensors and electronics devices are employed to keep prices down in a few domains. In order to save money and enhance the abilities of agricultural experts, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) can be used for reconnaissance, pesticide and insecticide application, and bioprocessing mistake detection. When it comes to this application, both single-mode and multi-mode UAV systems will work just fine. On the other hand, this chapter identifies the challenges and limitations of IoT and UAVs connection in remote locations, demonstrating several use cases of smart agriculture and the advantages and applications of using IoT and UAVs in agriculture.

In recent technology, there is tremendous growth in computer applications that highlight human–computer interaction (HCI), such as augmented reality (AR), and Internet of Things (IoT). As a consequence, hand gesture recognition was highlighted as a very up-to-date research area in computer vision. The body language is a vital method to communicate between people, as well as emphasis on voice messages, or as a complete message on its own. Thus, automatic hand gestures recognition systems can be used to increase human–computer interaction. Therefore, many approaches for hand gesture recognition systems have been designed. However, most of these methods include hybrid processes such as image pre-processing, segmentation, and classification. This paper describes how to create hand gesture model easily and quickly with a well-tuned deep convolutional neural network. Experiments were performed using the Cambridge Hand Gesture data set for illustration of success and efficiency of the convolutional neural network. The accuracy was achieved as 96.66%, where sensitivity and specificity were found to be 85% and 98.12%, respectively, according to the average values obtained at the end of 20 times of operation. These results were compared with the existing works using the same dataset and it was found to have higher values than the hybrid methods.

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